Theatre programmes
Published: 1892
Language: eng
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Specimens; Theater programs
Description: Bound volume collection of theater programs for performances at venues including Garden Theatre, Proctor's Theatre in New York, the Academy of Music and the New National Theatre in Washington, D.C. Includes programs for performances by Cora Tanner, Richard Mansfield, Edward Lloyd, Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, Francis Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Kendal, the Famous Bostonians, Felix Morris, Charles Frohman's Comedians, Lillian Russell, Jennie Yeamans, Wilson Barrett, Rose Coghlan, James K. Hackett, Peter F. Dailey, Old Hoss Bill Hoey, John C. Rice, Julia Marlowe Taber, Wm. H. Crane, James T. Powers, Roland Reed, Joseph Jefferson, Ada Rehan, Fanny Davenport, Sol Smith Russell, E.H. Sothern and others.
Notes: Includes programs for performances of plays and  entertainments written by W. Echard Golden, F.C. Philips, Percy Fendall, Emma V. Sheridan, Geo. R. Sims, Rob't Buchanan, Clyde Fitch, Richard Mansfield, Octave Feuillet, Charles H. Hoyt, Harry Paulton, Edward Jakobowski, Henry Pettitt, Sir Augustus Harris, A.W. Pinero, Reginald De Koven, Harry B. Smith, Felix Morris, Charles Thomas, Alexandre Bisson, William Gilette, Charles Alfred Byrne, Louis Harrisson, William Furst, Harry Nichols, W. Lestocq, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, John J. McNally, Harry and Edward Paulton, David D. Lloyd, Sydney Rosenfeld, Martha Morton, J. Palgrave Simpson, Victorien Sardou, Arthur Law, George Ohnet, Brandon Thomas, Charles Dickens, Albert Smith, John Maddison Morton, Ludwig Englander. B.C. Stephenson, Judith Gautier, Huntly McCarthy, Augustin Daly, Heinrich Stobitzer, Julius Rosen, George Coleman, the younger, John Tobin, Edward Kidder, Willard Spencer and Marguerite Merington.

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"Theatre programme[s]. E.W.W."--Spine.

Some individual programs are also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Digital Collections Web site: Variety Stage: Theater Playbills and Programs. Digitized versions of programs include: "Lew Dockstader's Minstrels" (Feb. 26, 1894), "The Passing Show" (Nov. 26, 1894).

Printed inventory card file arranged alphabetically by title available in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division Reading Room: item level control.

LC copy: "Source unknown 67." Some programs have duplicates.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Theater programs and playbills: "Hearts" (1892); title: "Husband and Wife, or, The Tiger Lillies' Club" (1892); title: "Ten Thousand a Year" [1892]; title: "The English Rose" [1892]; title: "Beau Brummell" [1892]; title: "Parisian Romance" [1892]; title: "Lew Dockstader's Minstrels" (1894); title: "A Temperance Town" (1894); title: "Erminie" (1894); title: "The Prodigal Daughter" (1894); title: "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" (1894); title: "A Texas Steer" (1894); title: "Robin Hood" (1894); title: "The Old Musician" (1894); title: "The Paper Chase" (1894); title: "Mr. Wilkinson's Widows" (1894); title: "The Princess Nicotine" (1894); title: "Jane" (1894); title: "Chums" (1894); title: "Hamlet" (1894); title: "A Woman of No Importance" (1894); title: "The Private Secretary" (1894); title: "A Country Sport" (1895); title: "The Flams" (1895); title: "Romeo and Juliet" (1895); title: "The Senator" (1895); title: "His Wife's Father" (1895); title: "A Scrap of Paper" (1895); title: "A Texas Steer" (1895); title: "The New Boy" (1894); title: "The Ironmaster" (1895); title: "The Politician" (1895); title: "Merry Wives of Windsor" (1895); title: "Charley's Aunt" (1895); title: "Cricket on the Hearth" (1894); title: "Lend Me Five Shillings" (1894); title: "The Passing Show" (1894); title: "The Taming of the Shrew" (1895); title: "Gismonda" (1895); title: "Impulse" (1895); title: "Heart of Ruby" (1895); title: "Love on Crutches" (1895); title: "Nancy and Company" (1895); title: "The Heir-at-Law" (1895); title: "The Honeymoon" (1895); title: "A Poor Relation" (1895); title: "The Princess Bonnie" (1895); title: "Capt. Lettarblair" (1895).